fermentable
adjective, noun
fermentable is an adjective meaning “Able to ferment or be fermented” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-R-M-E-N-T-A-B-L-E, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fermentable mean?
adjective
- 1
Able to ferment or be fermented.
noun
- 1
Any substance that can be fermented.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fermentable
- more fermentable comparative
- most fermentable superlative
- fermentables plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fermentable?
Fermentable appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fermentable come from?
From ferment + -able.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).